Chemical Biology

Thursday, July 23
08:30 - 11:30 am
Room 6 (room 5 - overflow)

CONCURRENT MORNING SYMPOSIA 1
Chair: Francisco Blanco, CIC bioGUNE. Elexalde Derio, Spain.


08:35 Edward Tate,  Imperial College. London, United Kingdom.
Probing dynamic protein lipidation: from chemical proteomics to drug discovery.

Young Investigator Speaker:

09:05 Serena Zanzoni, University of Verona. Verona, Italy.
Ubiquitin-Nanoparticle Interactions by Solution NMR Spectroscopy.

09:20 Robert Copeland, Epizyme, Inc. Cambridge, MA, United States.
Protein Methyltransferase Inhibitors as Personalized Cancer Therapeutics.

25-min Coffee Break

10:15 Linda Hsieh-Wilson,
California Institute of Technology/HHMI. Pasadena, CA, United States.
Dynamic Regulation of Metabolic Enzymes and Pathways by O-Glycosylation.

Young Investigator Speaker

10:45 Maria Matveenko,
University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria.
Semi-Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of a Small Heat Shock Protein Bearing a Nonenzymatic Posttranslational Modification Found In Vivo.

11:00 Ernest Giralt,  Institut de Recerca Biomèdica. Barcelona, Spain.
Peptides and Molecular Recognition at Protein Surfaces.